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When I said that I was thinking of a story from 10 or 20 years ago where a bunch of people were increasing their bandwidth by hacking their cablemodems, and the
by dec0dedab0de 5y ago
When I said that I was thinking of a story from 10 or 20 years ago where a bunch of people were increasing their bandwidth by hacking their cablemodems, and they all got raided. I can't seem to find the exact story right now, but Google returns a few similar stories.
- LinuxBender 5y agoI vaguely remember this. IIRC the people raided were those hacking into the CMTS to uncap their modems and their friends modems and I want to say that at least one of them was selling services to uncap modems. Perhaps the notion of hacking was just modding the cable modem to ignore limits being given by the CMTS but either way I believe someone was selling access to this which got the attention of the feds.
- Nextgrid 5y agoThat seems like an awfully terrible design if the user-controlled equipment is responsible for rate-limiting instead of the CMTS itself.
- LinuxBender 5y agoI agree. No idea if that is still possible these days. Perhaps someone here is involved in the DOCSIS standards or is a cable modem hacker and could offer some insight as to how things may have evolved.